40 Years of Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service

Northeastern University’s Department of African American Studies mentors intellectual leaders, develops emerging scholars, and trains global citizens who are able to explore the world from diverse perspectives in an ever increasingly global and interdisciplinary world. As a community of international and interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, and community leaders the department aims to create and translate knowledge to meet global and societal needs.

In March, North­eastern Uni­ver­sity pro­fes­sors Amílcar Bar­reto and Richard D. O’Bryant will con­vene a score of scholars for a day­long con­fer­ence on gender and iden­tity in the age of Obama. …Read More

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How Far to the Promised Land?: Civil Rights since Brown v. Board of Education